Changing ovens out with different requirements


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Old 05-20-12, 06:32 PM
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Changing ovens out with different requirements

I have a electric pizza oven that Im swapping out for a gas conveyor oven. The electric oven has a 50amp breaker and uses a 50 amp plug. The gas oven is rated at 15amps. Can I swap plugs and replace the 50 amp breaker with a double pole 15amp breaker. Is there any harm in this?
 
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The gas oven is rated at 15amps. Can I swap plugs and replace the 50 amp breaker with a double pole 15amp breaker.
Does the gas oven need 120V or 240V?
 
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You'd only need a single pole breaker if the gas oven is 120v. If you are going to 120v you will need a ground wire and a white wire in addition to a hot wire. If you don't have a factory colored white and the wire is #6 or smaller you can't recolor one of the wires white (except in very limited industrial/commercial situations). Best solution if it is 120v is to just use a nearby 120v receptacle.
 
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It's needs 240 to the the blower and conveyor.
 
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The gas oven requires 240.
 
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You will need to reduce the hot wires at the breaker box using #14 0r #12 pigtails. Same for the new receptacle at the oven. You should not change the plug on the oven. Instead match the receptacle to the oven plug.
 
 

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